A slow race that convinced - 4.5 points

Puck Connolly Kate lives with her brothers and her pony impoverished and orphaned in a ramshackle Fischerhäusschen on the island Thisby. The island is a place where every autumn the water horses get out of the floods, horses that live on blood and flesh, and equally admired and feared by the inhabitants of the island. On November first of each year the inhabitants organize on the beach a dangerous race of these horses water. As pucks brother threatens the impoverished island to leave in favor of the economically richer mainland, she wears as a participant for the race. To save the house and her pony and thus her brother stays longer and it gains time to talk him progress. There she meets Sean Kendrick know the four-time winner of the race, hoping to be able to buy this year the water Horse Corr from his boss by his victory.

The Scorpio Races is a slow book, which will be not any. The silent story taciturn, reclusive characters, the harsh landscape and the fascinating but also disturbing water horses can boast not much in terms of plot and action. Only towards the end of the book it is really exciting the strength of this novel lies rather in a quiet force, mediating an atmosphere, a quiet but profound love story and an interesting setting with economical use of fantasy elements. Possible this dense entanglement is the poetic and beautiful language and narrative style of the author, which actually tells quite simply and succeeds with this simple means, convey much.
Nevertheless, The Scorpio Races not a book for everyone is determined there is certainly catchier young adult novels. Personally, I found the book but very moving and beautiful.